Original Grand Theft Auto getting a 3D makeover

One of the creators of the original Grand Theft Auto
game has been reworking Liberty City in 3D thanks to GameMaker
Studio.

Michael Dailly and David Jones created GTA while
working at DMA Design -- the studio that became Rockstar North.
Dailly is now head of development at YoYo Games which, amongst
other things, develops the GameMaker software.

It's a way of demonstrating the tool's capacity for 3D work and
more of an interesting example than anything else. After all,
Rockstar owns the rights to GTA so it's unlikely Dailly
would be able to release anything without infringing copyright,
regardless of whether it was commercial or not.

However, in response to the attention the project has been
getting, Dailly
tweeted: "We'll certainly do 'something' with it now!"

That "something" might well be explained by an earlier
tweet: "I'll release something at some point, but probably not
with maps/textures, although I could release the tool I wrote to
extract them."